Need to know: While Monday night's tournament selection show left USF steamed (No. 6 seed), Buffalo was stimulated. Last year, the Bulls finished 22-10 and reached the MAC Tournament semifinals, but were shut out of postseason play. The Bulls' fate probably rests on the sore ankle of Reid, who went down late in the MAC final against Central Michigan. Reid, who ranks seventh nationally in assists per game, told The Buffalo News she'll be ready by the weekend. If she's healthy, look for the Bulls — who set a program single-season record for victories — to employ a brisk tempo. They rank 26th nationally in scoring (77.5 ppg) and have scored at least 80 points 16 times. Four players average at least 10 points, and six average at least seven. On the other end, they rank ninth in the country in 3-point percentage defense (27.0), making for an intriguing matchup against a USF squad that sinks nearly nine treys a game.

Odds and ends: Buffalo typically employs an all-upperclassmen starting lineup (three seniors, two juniors). … Legette-Jack was the first hire by then-Buffalo athletic director Danny White, who now holds the same job at UCF. … Buffalo becomes the second team from upstate New York's "Big 4" (Buffalo, Niagara, Canisius, St. Bonaventure) to receive a women's NCAA at-large bid. The other? St. Bonaventure's 2012 club, which also played its first- and second-round games in Tallahassee and reached the Sweet 16.

The American Athletic Conference announced Monday it has joined forces with the ACC to form a football officiating alliance, effective immediately.The partnership will allow the conferences "to work together on a wide range of officiating matters, in...

The conviction in Willie Taggart's voice is borne of equal parts bias and irrefutable evidence. USF's former coach doesn't think Quinton Flowers can play quarterback at the next level, he knows it."He's gonna make some GM look like a genius," Taggart...

USF's women arrived in the Panhandle for their NCAA Tournament opener bent on proving they were under-seeded.They proved to be underwhelming instead.Flummoxed by Buffalo's suffocating man-to-man defense and dead-eye 3-point accuracy, the sixth-seeded...

Five starts into his final collegiate season, USF left-hander Shane McClanahan remains as close to flawless as one can reasonably expect.Before a sparse USF Baseball Stadium audience featuring roughly a dozen scouts, McClanahan struck out a career-be...

TAMPA — Since receiving another brush-off from another NCAA Tournament selection committee, Jose Fernandez has displayed a series of suppressed reactions.Since learning Monday that his 19th-ranked team (26-7) received a No. 6 regional seed desp...

Before the college baseball season started, USF left-hander Shane McClanahan was seen as a probable top-10 pick in baseball's June amateur draft. It's still early, but that projection is starting to look conservative: No less an expert than MLB.com's...

Indulge us momentarily as we direct your attention from brackets to box scores.Specifically, the ones involving the USF baseball and softball teams, both of whom are staging their own stirring — or stirrup-wearing — versions of March Madn...

Bring on the bracketology. With Tuesday night's gritty effort against Connecticut in the American Athletic Conference title game, the No. 19 USF women put a final tenacious touch on their NCAA Tournament resume.On Monday night, they'll gather in the ...

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